Edward Carpenter

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.